[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add versioning information to dlls

[Måns Rullgård]

Ramiro Polla <ramiro at lisha.ufsc.br> writes:

> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:48:29AM -0400, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
>>>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 01:21:15PM -0400, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 03:37:53PM -0400, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
>>>>>>>   
>>>>>>> I'm out of bright ideas right now.  Let's wait for Mans to return from
>>>>>>> LinuxTag and have a look.  In the meantime, could you please post the
>>>>>>> latest incarnation of your patch so that we have a basis to work with?
>>>>>>>       
>>>>>> Here you go.
>>>>> Here's the relevant IRC discussion between me and Mans on the subject:
>>>>>
>>>>> 00:36 <@DonDiego> mru: did you see that windows rc thing?
>>>>> 00:37 <@mru> I saw it, didn't look at it
>>>>> 00:37 <@mru> in detail
>>>>> 00:37 <@mru> this is the wrong solution
>>>>> 00:37 <@mru> what we should do is
>>>>> 00:37 <@mru> 1. fix version.h creation to work when building in subdirs
>>>>> 00:38 <@DonDiego> yes
>>>>> 00:38 <@mru> 2. add a %.o: %.rc rule
>>>>> 00:38 <@mru> 3. add a %.rc: whatever rule
>>>>> 00:38 <@mru> perhaps with a shell script helper
>>>>> 00:39 <@DonDiego> we can start with 1.
>>>>> 00:39 <@DonDiego> IIUC this is a real bug anyway
>>>>> 00:39 <@mru> yes, that's why I gave it that number
>>>>>
>>>>> That does indeed sound like a plan.
>>>> Which part is incorrect?
>>> We need separate patches.  The first step would be to send us one that
>>> implements version.h creation when running make from a subdirectory.
>>> This is not entirely trivial, if you want to avoid having one version.h
>>> file per subdirectory.  Try having configure run version.sh at the end
>>> so that version.h already exists when make is run, even from a
>>> subdirectory.
>> 
>> That's not a good idea, since the version can change without configure
>> being run.
>
> Currently the build system doesn't reflect version changes on shared 
> libraries and pc files. We know you like neither of them, but do you 
> plan on fixing this somehow?

The situation is not ideal, and I have been thinking about how to
improve it.  In the meantime, let's not add more to the breakage.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
mans at mansr.com